Gnome-Shell

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 22:19 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: 
> Dave Quigley writes:
> 
> > Is there a list anywhere of supported hardware for gnome-shell? I've tried
> 
> It's the same as the list of supported 3D hardware for x.org, on  
> http://mesa.freedesktop.org, which seems to be down right now.
> 
It has been down for the laast month which is frustrating. 
> In addition to that, you also have the additional option of gaining 3D by  
> installing your hardware vendor's binary blob. If it works with x.org,  
> great. If not, you're on your own.
>  
> > it on 3 computers so far and none of them work. The first was VMWare which  
> > I've seen isn't supported so I wrote that off. The second was a dell  
> > optiplex 790 with on-board intel accelerated graphics. The final one is an  
> > optiplex 960 with a Radeon HD 3450 in it. Is there something wrong with the  
> > setup or is gnome-shell really that selective about hardware even after its  
> > been in two Fedora releases?
> 
> gnome-shell itself doesn't care, it just uses x.org. If x.org runs, and  
> gives 3D capability, that's all that gnome-shell cares about.
> 


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